Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger.

For I am the Lord your God, who holds your right hand, who says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.”

Cast your burden on the Lord , and he will sustain you; he will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Therefore I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Happy are those who keep his decrees and seek him with all their heart.

No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

No discipline seems enjoyable at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.